Designed around the overworld map, the character prances around from town to town, and dungeon to dungeon.

It fills up rather quickly, meaning the fights happen very fast. The enemy will, while preparing for their attack, fill up a space around them. The player will swing their weapon of choice at the enemy depending on which direction they're facing. While it can often be hard to maintain a steady eye on your charter, what with all that is going on, combat is simple.

The final accolade Cat Quest receives is the combat itself. Magic can be levelled up at specific locations, which are also utilized for acquiring the magic in the first place. Mapped to the right mouse button, one only needs to hold it down and drag the mouse around to pick their poison. While that's no surprise, it is surprising how tight the spell controls are. There are also spells, which allow for the casting of magic. The whole system is remarkably easy to grasp, yet offers a tremendous amount of variety. Sure, this is how all open world RPGs tend to function, but here it's distilled into only those components that make it genuinely enjoyable. While on one hand, a hero could be focused heavily on spell casting, another could be a vicious melee cantered juggernaut. This is remarkably brilliant and makes each trip to the store, regardless of how random, a little adventure of its own.Д¬at Quest offers a surprising amount of choices for how small a game it is. Instead of just being forced to hang onto a bunch of axes or hats, each time the player receives the same item again, it just levels up the one they already have. See, there are times when one might receive the same item multiple times. This sounds pointless, but it's actually a subtle piece of brilliance. One decides if they want to part with different denominations of gold, and is, in return, handed an item. There are shops throughout the game that act similar to lotteries. There is a healthy focus on levelling items up as you go, and this is a definite high point. The biggest issue is just that it occurs a little too often to not feel like the game is falling into a rut from time to time. Due time here manages to be impressively well balanced, and nothing feels like it is too long or too short to achieve. Like any good RPG, Cat Quest often hangs success just a bit out of reach, letting those who endure even just a little taste it in due time. Honestly, while this is a problem, it's not one that lasts awfully long. The best way to summarize it would be getting writer's block for thirty minutes at a time, seven times a day. There's a silver lining here, though, as it allows for plenty of grinding - although getting to stop and grind so soon after making a bit of headway can be irritating. This can lead to aimlessly wandering around, trying to find a quest that can be completed. Even at this level, recommended quests for it inevitably feel a bit too difficult, often leading to an abrupt death. The problem is that, all too often, it's easy to get stuck, feeling as though there's no place to go. This also keeps quests manageably short, and keeps the adventure rolling forward at a healthy, albeit fairly brisk pace, depending on skill and levelling. This allows levelling to coincide with new and more difficult quests, and rewards to be doled out more frequently. One quest might span the player 10 to 15 levels, as it's broken up into multiple quests, each with a different recommended level. The good news is that the game introduces the quests, and by proxy the levelling, in such a genuine and organic way. This is due to the quests, which often feel a bit outside the player's grasp. Cat Quest does a decent job of trying to keep the adventure focused, but it doesn't always work out. It's easy to wander off and end up somewhere where victory is little more than a pipe dream.

It does a good enough job of introducing mechanics slowly, but as an open world title, it often lets things get out of hand. In reality, this game can be pretty hard. At the very least, it's something for parents to introduce their children to if they're a bit young for Chrono Trigger. The look of the game would probably leave one assuming this is a kids' game. The next, a string of cute, yet eye roll-inducing puns come courtesy of a script that feels mostly fun and engaging. One minute, you'll be meeting another cat who feels friendly and almost alive. Cat Quest does an amazing job of injecting charm through a myriad of different avenues.

All the standards for a great video game tale are here, and yet, they feel wildly new. There's a damsel in distress in the form of the hero's sister, a malicious villain in the form of Drakoth, and a sidekick who talks just a tad too much. The hero in Cat Quest is fairly typical of an adventure RPG.

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